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    Quote Originally Posted by Topfmine View Post
    The sight I am referring to has nothing to do with post war modern day 60mm mortars.
    I agree with which sight you speak of, our was issued in the little green metal box, WW2 dates stamped...
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    I seem to remember that, without referring to my student notes, that our OML Mortar 2" went up to the Mk8 but there were MANY sub variants of each. The Mk7 came as the Mk7, the 7/1 and the 7/2 - and we had to learn each bloody mark/type! As for the sights I have only ever seen one lensatic sight. There were a couple of pressed steel clamp-on sights that looked similar to the No4 and 5 rifle spring loaded clip-on sights. So I'd say that your date of 42/43 or so would be about right but.......... That is the start date and the lensatic sights will have been in use for many years after that, well into the late 50's, unrtil the older 'big baseplate' mortars were obsolete and worn out. Then the mechanism base and barrels were simply converted into the Mk7's and 8's as we know them. Good kit...., section artillery.

    We had a little bench mounted jig that you put the newly painted barrel in then closed a tight fitting lid down. The lid had a slot in it and you just sprayed the white sighting line through the slot. I seem to remember that one of the later barrels was 2" shorter than the norm but the drop-off in MV was so great that the illumination flares would hardly reach their fuzing speed or height.

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    A few pictures of the Mk 2 sight used from 1938- about 42 and the large base plate 2" mortar which was replaced by the small base plate or spade plate model. Be nice to find a deact large base plate 2" mortar. Never seen one in my years of collecting, must have thrown all the bases out for scrap. I have seen spade plate mortars that were converted from the older model that still retained the side lug that the traversing arm was screwed into.

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    So has anyone seen one with case. Anyone seen a early base plate 2 inch mortar by chance.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Topfmine View Post
    Anyone seen a early base plate 2 inch mortar by chance
    Well, we still had the 60mm mortar on issue when I was in the small arms school here some years back. The baseplate was the same as the one for the 81mm and the little sights came complete with the box of course... Saw lots of them...
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